Cheryl Twitters Wausau
Our involvement with Twitter is an ever-changing activity. As I figure out the best and most effective way to share and promote local online content, we’ll be tweaking and adjusting our system and format.
Let me tell you a little bit about Twitter. In a nutshell, it’s microblogging … very small blog posts, just 140 characters or less. You write something like, “I’m at Buffalo Wild Wings with Justin and Jimmy, eating too many wings.” Your friends, the people who “follow” you, will see that post on their Twitter screen. It’ll show up with your name, a little picture, and the time you posted it. So now we’ll know where you are, who you’re with, and what you’re doing, and we can comment on what you post. “@soandso Sounds yummy! Are you bringing me the leftovers?”
It’s an easy, fun way to stay in touch with people and also to blog things that aren’t worthy of a full-length post. The 140-character format requires you to be pithy and concise, causing you to get to the point quickly and challenging you to use the fewest words to describe something. You can share funny, interesting things that happen during your day or that interest you. “LMAO at this story from The Onion. http://tinyurl.com/xxx.”
Which describes how I use Twitter for Citizen Wausau. I love finding online content generated in Wausau or related to Wausau. I’m twittering about blogs and events or bits of chatter about the city. Here at Citizen Wausau, we support and encourage local online content. We want you to know that we’re listening to what you have to say, and we’re hoping more of you start writing. Your voice is important, and we want to hear more of you.
I read all new content every day, and I choose links to promote on our Twitter feed. I describe the link I’m sending you to and I give my comments or opinions on the topic discussed. Consider me your tour guide to Wausau online.
Eventually, I’d like to see a full Twitter community, all of us following each other, interested in each other’s lives and opinions in a more intimate way that’s just not possible from full-length blogs and comments. There are several Citizen Wausau people on Twitter already, and many more from the general Wausau community. I urge you to create your own Twitter account today so you can join the conversation. If you don’t feel up to starting a full-fledged blog on Citizen Wausau, Twitter is an opportunity for you to start blogging on a small scale.
Of course when you do, I hope you follow http://www.twitter.com/citizenwausau. And I’ll follow you as well!
Starting next week, I’ll be publishing a Twitter digest to our front page twice a week. I’ll pick my favorite links to post with my comments included. You’ll get a quick peek into what other people are talking about online. I’ll continue posting a Twitter report nightly with all of the links I twittered during that day, but that will be to the community Twitter Report blog.
Please let me know if you have any questions or if you need help getting your Twitter account set up.
robertmentzer said:
I am a tremendous fan of your twitter feed, I feel like I see lots of local stuff I wouldn’t see otherwise.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:37 pm #
Dino Corvino said:
Cheryl rules.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:42 pm #